We safely and routinely handle consumer products that need to be discarded due to shelf life expiration or damage. Our specialists collect, sort, package, manifest, transport and dispose of these products to prevent them from re-entering the consumer market.

Clean Harbors also provides site closure services including decontamination, decommissioning, demolition and material/soil remediation. We can also fabricate and construct integrated remediation systems to meet site-specific cleanup needs.

Specialized Equipment and Expertise

Using state-of-the-art personal protective, project and safety equipment, our experts evaluate your situation and safely package and remove cylinders from your site. When materials are potentially unsafe to ship, Clean Harbors will mobilize a team of cylinder specialists to your location where they can:

DEA Controlled Substance Management

We own and operate the only RCRA Incinerator in North America approved as a DEA Reverse Distributor.

Clean Harbors provides secure transportation and destruction of all types of DEA controlled substances including off-spec, out-of-date and returned products.

Transporting DEA controlled substances with Clean Harbors could not be simpler. Our personnel complete the required transfer paperwork, and our Company-owned trucks deliver the substances to our facilities for disposal. Afterward, we provide a Certificate of Destruction certifying the proper disposal of each controlled substance shipment. We also provide the following security provisions:

Shipment tracking

On-site vaulting at our Aragonite, Utah, facility

Witness destruction

DEA-Approved Reverse Distributor

Clean Harbors is the only RCRA Incinerator in North America that is also approved as a DEA Reverse Distributor. As such, Clean Harbors assumes full chain-of-custody ownership of Schedule I-V controlled substances from the pickup at the customer’s site to transportation and complete destruction. Our experts ensure:

Product security

Documentation and reporting to required federal agencies

Accurate segregation of hazardous and non-hazardous drugs

Material ownership continuity

Clean Harbors DEA Registration Number: RC0331049

Decontamination

Decontamination

We have performed thousands of decontamination and facility closures from small single buildings to multi-building expansive facilities that require decontamination for mercury, lead, PCB and other contaminants.

Clean Harbors offers Decontamination services for a wide range of circumstances by removing, neutralizing or destroying any harmful substance.

Whether you operate an oil refinery, a processing plant, a medical lab or any type of industrial facility, decontamination is critical to safe and efficient plant management. Clean Harbors has the technical expertise, manpower and equipment to decontaminate all sizes and types of facilities and waste. We provide Decontamination services for:

Emergency Response

With more 200 locations in North America, Clean Harbors has the manpower, equipment and technical expertise to manage any size environmental emergency on land or water.

Clean Harbors can rapidly deploy experienced, fully certified workers to meet the needs of any incident in the United States, Canada or Puerto Rico.

Over-the-road incidents

Punctured lines

Tank overflows

Leaking drums

Saddle tank spills

Large pipeline ruptures

Mercury spills

Biological and infectious materials

Ship groundings

Tanker truck rollovers

Chemical and hazardous material spills

Oil spills

Hurricane, earthquake and storm damage

Emergency lab packs

Homeland security and terrorist attack responses

Releases in warehouses and distribution centers

Rapid Response and Containment

Varying by the response, spills typically can be contained within the first few hours, with minimal remediation in the next 48 hours. Clean Harbors works under all local, state and federal guidelines (EPA, OSHA, USCG, etc.) when performing containment and cleanup. Waste for off-site disposal is packaged and prepared for shipment to a waste treatment and disposal facility.

Emergency Preparedness

Clean Harbors Emergency Response experts can provide guidance on emergency management, operations, planning, logistics and more. Our Standby Emergency Response Coverage ensures that you have the necessary coverage and response in the event of an environmental emergency.

Oil Spill Removal Organization (OSRO)

Under the U.S. Coast Guard’s OSRO Classification Program, Clean Harbors holds Captain of the Port ratings for facilities and vessels in 56 ports throughout the United States and Puerto Rico.

Emergency Operations Center

Clean Harbors operates an Emergency Operations Center where duty operators certified in DOT and RCRA can help you 24/7. One number, one call: 800.645.8265

InSite Services

InSite Services

Clean Harbors InSite Services is a branded on-site/in-plant service delivery program through which we provide a full range of environmental, industrial and waste management offerings. This signature program is built on safety, quality, efficiency and integrity—and has been offered by Clean Harbors for over 20 years.

Clean Harbors has extensive experience working with unstable and shock-sensitive materials, as well as managing disposal of explosives and materials restricted from transportation. With a vast transportation fleet and permitted transfer storage and disposal facilities throughout the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico, we provide turnkey reactive material services.

Chemical Stabilization

Clean Harbors understands the disadvantages of controlled detonation and has developed sound chemical stabilization techniques that enable us to manage the following types of potentially unstable materials (along with others on a case-by-case basis):

Peroxide-forming compounds

Temperature-sensitive compounds

Organic peroxides

Shock-sensitive compounds

Multi-nitrated compounds

Azides

Remote Container Opening Procedures

Our Reactive Material specialists take every precaution and limit the handling of hazardous and potentially unstable materials. We use specially designed equipment for all reactive remediation and stabilization projects, including pneumatically driven machinery that can remotely open a container.

Unknown Compound Fingerprint Analysis

Our CleanPack® chemists provide fingerprint analysis for unknown compounds within lab pack-sized containers provided that the materials pass our safety evaluation. If these materials fail the evaluation and are suspected to be shock-sensitive, unstable or reactive, they must be remotely opened and tested before packaging.

Reuse, Recycling and Reclamation

Reuse, Recycling and Reclamation

Clean Harbors can help your company more effectively and efficiently manage your waste management needs through recycling.

Clean Harbors Recycling and Reuse Program provides a comprehensive step-by-step approach that evaluates your R&D and manufacturing operations and identifies opportunities for efficient waste management. Whether a waste stream or production by-product is sold "as is," recycled or reused, your costs and possible liabilities can be significantly reduced.

Waste Disposal Services

Clean Harbors Waste Disposal Services provide the widest range of treatment and disposal options in the industry for all of your hazardous and non-hazardous waste.

Unmatched in North America, our facilities provide services for all of the United States, Canada, northern Mexico and Puerto Rico. We handle drum and bulk hazardous waste in liquid, solid, semi-solid, sludge and gas forms.

One Call Handles All of Your Hazardous Waste Disposal Needs

Organizing multiple vendors is costly, time-consuming and it can leave gaps in your hazardous waste program that increase your risk or leave you open to problems with compliance.

Employing the most advanced technologies, we provide a single source for all of your hazardous waste disposal needs, making the entire process easier, safer and more cost-effective. From PCBs to cyanides and explosives, we handle it all through a highly coordinated truck, rail and ship transportation network.

Chemical Solvent Recycling

Recycling and reusing chemical solvents can be an economical alternative for your business, and Clean Harbors can give you that option.

With three centrally located recycling facilities, we can recycle used solvents to your specifications and return them to you. If disposal is your preference, we can take your used solvents and recycle them to our own specifications.

Our flexible operations—combined with chemical knowledge and engineering expertise—bring advanced solutions to the challenges of separation and purification.

During the recovery process, components of the solvent/chemical streams are isolated and purified to high-quality product specifications.

Clean Harbors Recycling Services employees are experts in recycling and tolling. All processing meets strict local, state and federal regulations and customer requirements.

We understand the importance of providing a product without cross-contamination, and we consistently deliver quality products.

Remediation Services

Clean Harbors Remediation Services handle large-scale, complex site cleanup projects and environmental construction needs for the public and private sectors. We can remediate any location to meet corporate or regulatory cleanup requirements.

Clean Harbors provides comprehensive on-site Remediation Services for a plant or facility expansion, an idled facility or a decommissioned process. If you are closing a process, a building or an expansive facility in order to sell the property, remediating a brownfield or repurposing property, Clean Harbors has the solution.

Coke oven dismantlement and closure

Landfill construction, capping and collection systems

In situ, ex situ treatment

Soil solidification, stabilization

Excavation and disposal

Decontamination, decommissioning, demolition

Integrated remediation systems construction and management

Hazardous and special waste management

Manufactured gas plant remediation

Mining site remediation

Groundwater remediation

Sediments remediation

Remedial systems configurations for site-specific cleanup criteria

Refinery projects

Whatever your remediation needs, Clean Harbors has the manpower, equipment and expertise to not only get the job done but also exceed expectations.